• @zeppo
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    429 days ago

    You realize that food producers in a communist nation wouldn’t be supposed to make profits, right? The problems with that in various countries were from poorly done central planning.

    • NeuromancerM
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      -629 days ago

      It’s an inherent flaw in communism. People starve under the system.

      • @[email protected]
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        329 days ago

        Source? Communism has never been implemented, and the systems designed to transition to communism, e.g. the USSR, we’re actually pretty successful in decreasing hunger. People starve under capitalism.

      • @zeppo
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        329 days ago

        Not any more than it is under capitalism. People starve under that system too. Meanwhile you have Republicans crying that a state might pay $1.50 a day to feed a needy kid lunch at school. Why is that even necessary then?

        • NeuromancerM
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          -529 days ago

          My friends who survived communism would disagree with you. Do you have a cite to show otherwise?

          Looking at Venezuela, I have not seen anything like that here, have you? or Cuba? When I was in Cuba, malnutrition was common.

          • @zeppo
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            329 days ago

            Do I have a citation that starvation exists in capitalist countries as well? I don’t think comparing the rest of the world to the US, which is extraordinarily well-positioned economically for a variety of reasons, makes much sense. Even so, we have 15-30 million people in the US who experience occasional or chronic food insecurity.

            As far as Cuba, who knows how they would have done without decades of a US trade embargo. Venezuela has suffered under looting and misrule by authoritarian dictators, not communism.

            • NeuromancerM
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              -429 days ago

              Cuba is only embargoed from us. Pretty much everyone else in the world trades with them.

              Authoritarian dictators. Communism. It is all the same thing.

              • @zeppo
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                329 days ago

                Authoritarian dictators. Communism. It is all the same thing.

                Ha ha, no. If that’s the angle you’re coming from that explains a lot.

                  • @zeppo
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                    -128 days ago

                    oh, a capitalist economy? yep, they all feature people on the lower economic rung starving. check out the industrial revolution in the UK for a great example.